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Solidarity is not a policy. It is not about politics or a line item in a budget.
It does not start with a one-time statement or call to action. It requires more of us all.

♥️ Solidarity starts with love. ♥️
And it requires us all to start by grounding our action in love.

When we start with love, we open the door to seeing each other in our full humanity. Not as some category we may have been placed into — refugee, humanitarian, donor — but as people with common goals, common hopes, and a shared responsibility to walk alongside each other.

Donate: https://donorbox.org/worldrefugeeday

"World Refugee Day means so much to me on a personal level. It's a day that I express my thoughts as a refugee and feel my voice can be heard. I feel there is a world that takes care of me and has a big consideration for me, and at the same time I remember my homeland as well." - Abdelkrim, RUSA Coach, Chad

Donate today to support coaches like Abdelkrim. Every donation matched up to $5,000 this week only.
https://donorbox.org/worldrefugeeday

Mark your calendars!

Join us Thursday, June 18, for t our quarterly Community Zoom. For this World Refugee Day event, we are bringing together two amazing speakers to discuss what solidarity with refugees means in practice. Hear from Bahati Kanyamanza of International Refugee Assistance Project and Mohammed Khader of PAEMA, moderated by iACT Executive Director Sara-Christine Dallain.

Details:
📆 Thursday, June 18
🕰️ 5pm PT / 8pm ET
📍 Zoom (register with the link below)

REGISTER: tiny.cc/iACTCommunityZoom

Here are just a few of the amazing things going on with iACT's programs these past few weeks.

🎦 Journalism training for AMPLIFi in Chad.
⚽️ Soccer coach training in Alacha Refugee Camp, Chad.
🥪 Snack time with our RUSA program in Mexico.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY: Come be a part of AMPLIFi, iACT's community-led media initiative. Through this internship you will have the opportunity to support citizen journalism in Chad and the Central African Republic while building your skills in editing video for social media.

Learn more here:
https://www.iact.ngo/post/iact-internship-video-editor-digital-media-intern

Mahasine is so proud of her little brother and all he is learning at Little Ripples.

"Mohammed knows so much more than when he started."
-Mahasine, Little Ripples sibling

This World Football Day, iACT is taking the time to celebrate our young players as well as their parents and the communities that recognize the importance of investing in their children’s future.

We love getting photos from our teams! Here is a dispatch from our Refugees United Soccer Academy in refugee camp Oure Cassoni in eastern Chad.